Public Programs

Each year the Eureka Centre presents a range public programs that acknowledge special days in our community, including those that commemorate the events of the Eureka Stockade.

We hope you can join us at our annual Eureka Day and Eureka Sunday events and throughout the year at events that connect our community with the spirit of Eureka.

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Fletcher Jones Pastoralist Coverdines, Fletcher Jones Business and Family Records, University of Melbourne Archives, UMA-ITE-2012003100708. Courtesy of the Fletcher Jones Family Foundations. Rose Stereograph Co., ‘Fletcher Jones Factory, Warrnambool, Vic.’, 1920/1954. State Library of Victoria, H32492/8559.

Fletcher Jones: a history of wearing Australian wool

Thursday May 01, 2025
5.30pm

A public lecture by Dr Lorinda Cramer on the significance of Fletcher Jones to Australia’s dress history.

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Deans Marsh Country Women's Association, ‘Curtain - Deans Marsh’ 1939-1948 (detail), hessian bags: embroidered, sewn together and backed, Museums Victoria Collections, SH 920880

Curtains Up: Preserving Theatrical Material and Community Heritage

Saturday May 17, 2025
2.00pm

Museums Victoria’s Deborah Tout-Smith leads a panel discussion about the interpretation and preservation of theatre curtains and backdrops of heritage significance that originate from various locations across regional Victoria.

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Ballarat Post Office (detail) c1917-1930, silver gelatin photograph, 16.5 x 21.9cm, State Library of Victoria, Accession no: H89.105/13.

Ballarat Architecture: From the National Archives of Australia

Tuesday May 20, 2025
1.00pm

Join Alison Lettin from the National Archives of Australia as she delves into their records to present architectural drawings from Ballarat’s colonial era.

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Christine in her shearing shed outside Clunes. The farm has been owned and maintained by women since 1868 following the goldfields success of her great-grandfather Alexander’s training as a geologist in Scotland. Christine features in Ilana Rose and Tim Webster’s Voices of the Goldfields project created on behalf of the Goldfields World Heritage Bid.

Voices of the Goldfields: Your Stories

Wednesday May 21, 2025
1.00pm

A screening of the short film ‘Voices of the Goldfields’ and discussion about the Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Bid. 

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books on shelves at the library at Ballarat Research Hub at Eureka

A SOLDIER IN THE FAMILY: FINDING AUSTRALIAN MILITARY RECORDS

Wednesday May 21, 2025
2pm-3.30pm

Do you have a soldier in the family? Explore the records at the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia. 

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Say Who You Are. By Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Directed by Julian Oldfield. Ballarat National Theatre, Courthouse Theatre, Ballarat, 2003

Centre Stage: The Making of Ballarat’s Theatre Culture

Thursday May 22, 2025
6.00pm

Join us for a panel discussion chaired by creative leader and theatre maker, Bryce Ives, exploring Ballarat’s community theatre and theatre education history from the beginning of the 20th century to today. 

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Richard Pope (second from left) and his extended family photographed in Broken Hill in the 1890s. Provided by Dr Charles Fahey.

From Ballarat to Sandhurst: A Cornish miner’s life through the diary of Richard Pope, 1869-1886

Thursday June 05, 2025
5.30pm

A public lecture by Dr Charles Fahey on the life of intrepid miner Richard Pope, as detailed in his diary.

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books on shelves at the library at Ballarat Research Hub at Eureka

INTRODUCTION TO ANCESTRY.COM DNA

Wednesday June 18, 2025
2pm-3.30pm

Explore how your genealogical research and DNA results are interrelated on Ancestry.com. Learn how to use DNA results in your family history research. 

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F W Niven (publisher), Ballarat Punch (cover page), 9 January 1868. Ballarat Libraries, Australiana Research Collection.

Ballarat Punch Magazine: an insight into colonial cultural values

Thursday July 03, 2025
5.30pm

A public lecture by Dr Annie Thomas about Ballarat Punch magazine and the insight it gives us into colonial views on nationalism, race and gender.

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Three participants on stage at a Public Program at Eureka Centre Ballarat

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